Back in 1880, Irish tenant farmers were outraged over high rent sent by british landlords. They started an organization called land league and adopted a new tactic that became the backbone of nonviolent organizations for decades to come.
One of their first targets was a British estate manager in a small county Mayo. the league refused to sell him supplies, pick his crops or even talk to him if the rents were not reduced. They totally abandoned him. Soon he had to give in and flee away.
The british manager is now long dead but his name lives on, now attached to the revolutionary tactic first used against him.
His name Charles Cunningham BOYCOTT.
